Friends of Gilda was a 1993 ninety-minute television special made by CBC Television to benefit the Genesis Research Foundation, the research fundraising arm of the University of Toronto’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The fundraiser was a tribute to Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989 and featured a long list of performers with whom she was friendly. Among these were the "surviving cast members" who had shared the stage with Gilda Radner in the celebrated Toronto production of Godspell which was her professional stage debut. Others appearing in the special knew her from Second City Toronto. Several—including Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin—fell into both those categories.
Martin Short
Director
Perry Rosemond
Writer
Michael Short
Writer
Gilda Radner
Self (archive footage)
Valda Aviks
Self
John Candy
Self
Eugene Levy
Self
Martin Short
Self
Nancy Dolman
Self
Victor Garber
Self
Jim Betts
Self
Valri Bromfield
Self
John Candy: I Like Me78%
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
My Mom Jayne80%
Above Majestic73%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
McQueen74%
Night Will Fall76%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Directed by John Ford70%
Elstree 197661%
Being James Bond77%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Lucy and Desi71%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Nothing Like a Dame68%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Friends: The Reunion78%
